Instead of appearing for breakfast at the Seattle Victorian bed and breakfast run by Meg Yarmouth and recently retired Anders Hauge, gentle young Tab Oakley, a guest, is found mutilated and murdered in nearby volunteer Park. The only clue is his vanished gold Celtic crucifix. Even worse, one, then two more gay Seattle men are subsequently found similarly murdered. Anders and Meg find themselves sucked into the cascading violence, along with Seattle police department detective Lt. Socrates ...

Eric Harmon is visiting his salmon fisherman UncleLarry and his wife, Olga, in beautiful British Columbia. He discovers a mysterious totem pole in the woods and soon teams up with a Northwest Native American girl, Jenny Whitefeather, to try to discover the pole's story, which seems to be buried in ancient Salish Indian tribal lore. The two youngsters run afoul of two American marijuana growers

Church pandemonium, as congregants begin to drop like flies, after drinking arsenic-laced coffee just after the liberal Unitarian church Sunday morning service. Four later die, including Alicia Holmes, a visiting minister. Riverton, Alabama's new Police Chief and church member, Donald Ginsburg, has just witnessed the whole ugly scene. He's already deemed suspicious to many in the Bible belt town, as the bi-racial grandson of Riverton's black activist Eulah Jefferson, and the son of a New Y...

After running a Victorian house Bed and Breakfast for four years at the top of Seattle's Capital Hill, two seniors want something completely different and hatch a plan to move a cottage to the edge of a beautiful, remote tidal marsh in eastern North Carolina. They run into unexpected difficulties but persevere and then spend the next eight years enjoying observing the wild animals all about them and learning the cultural ways of the area.

Bert Brun's restlessness has driven him to several different occupations – travel counselor, hospital administrator, rubber plantation inspector, teacher, oceanographer, fisheries administrator, biologist and cruise ship lecturer. He's worked in Norway, Indonesia and New Zealand and has also helped set up a water delivery system on a Philippines island.His love life has been chaotic, by his own admission, yet he still managed to help raise three loving daughters.In his retire...

Thomas Jefferson, our third president, represents small government and the interests of what he calls the common man. John Adams, along with Alexander Hamilton, are allied with those who wish a more far-reaching, larger federal government, and to see powerful interests in charge of the young nation. The contest waged in 1800 is the first one in which distinct parties vie for the presidential prize. It becomes increasingly bitter, with Hamilton undercutting his own nominee, before Jefferson...

At Yalta, in Russia, Franklin D. Roosevelt, Winston Churchill and Joseph Stalin meet in February 1945. World War 2 is nearing its bloody conclusion with Nazi Germany's unconditional surrender.Stalin badgers Churchill and manipulates a worn out and dying Roosevelt so that, in the end, the Soviet Union will be able to politically dominate and draw an iron curtain across the eastern half of Europe.

CERTAIN THINGS HAPPENEDBy Bert BrunAfter their parents' marriage breakup, the Anderson siblings get on with their lives. Julia and Nora, following high school find jobs in Manhattan, while younger brother Kurt continues his schooling.World War II is already beginning in Europe. Patriotic Nora joins the WAVES. Julia dates Air Corps bomber navigator, Lt. Bill Allen, who perishes when his B-17 crashes over Germany. On the rebound, Julia marries a dull, stingy engineer.

Ed Harmens, co-owner with his wife, Meg Yarmouth, of a Seattle bed and breakfast, while jogging comes across a murdered homeless man in a local Park. They meet SPD detective Roosevelt Brown and become involved in the investigation. Two additional murders occur and, as the trail to the surprising killer narrows, Meg is kidnapped. Ed and Brown rescue her just in time to apprehend the murderer and prevent her grisly torture.

In "The Turtle", a blustering entrepeneur gets his comeuppance from an imagined performer. In "The GLA's Great Day", two gun promoters are surprised by a turn of events. In "Strange Love", an insect and a human forge a new relationship. In "Cissie's Hair", a narcissistic young woman meets a bizarre admirer. In "Good News", a black youngster has a crucial job interview. In "Hari Raya", a bloody Indonesian ritual takes place. In "The Spring Garden", a dying woman is humored by her loving hus...

Kayla, her baby brother and her mom go to the playground on a very windy day. Holding tight to her hat she is blown way up into the jet stream. Using their own big local big hats, children in Holland, China and Mexico copy her and soon all four kids are flying around the world. When Kayla arrives back over America she sees her worried mother far below waving for her daughter to come down. By loosening her hold on the hat just a little, the girl is able to sort of parachute back home safely...

1918, Bergen, Norway, and handsome Navy Lt. Eric Andersen meets and marries spirited "Bus" Holmboe. They emigrate to booming 1920s California, where Eric's film industry job brings in money for stock investments which promise to make him rich.The Depression strikes, they lose everything and, with two young daughters, wind up in 1930s New York, they're soon on the dole. WPA work fails to restore Eric's pride; he broods and drinks and the couple split. Eric heads for Newfoundland war ...